On Tuesday, July 31 your ad, signed by hundreds of Americans and dozens of organizations, was published in "The Hill" congressional newspaper. Your voices and contributions sent a wake up call to Congress before they left for the August recess. Just as our pressure helped scuttle Fast Track in June, your voices helped head off passage of these broken agreements in the frantic last week before the August break!

The pending trade agreements with Peru, Panama, Colombia and Korea are just four more NAFTA-style, corporate pacts that will do nothing for American workers or our neighbors in these countries. Last November, U.S voters joined people from around the world in calling for a trade model based on economic justice rather than corporate greed. Last week, Congress heard from you again in the newspaper. Now we hope you will contact them as they return to their districts for the August recess.

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Five Hundred official delegates from the following groups: ECUARANI (Ecuador), CONACAMI (Peru), CONAMAQ (Bolivia), ONIC (Colombia), and CITEM (Chile are participating in the First Congress of the  Andean Coordinating Committee of Indigenous of Indigenous Organizations (Quechua, Kichwa, Aymara, Mapuche)

Lima, July 3 (Prensa Latina) - Today Peruvians are threatening an imminent agrarian strike in protest of the country's congressional ratification of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States, which they consider detrimental to national interests.

      The US-OMAN FTA was voted on in the Senate on Thursday June 29^th.  Unsurprisingly, it passed 60-34 with 6 Senators not voting. This kind of outcome in the Senate was not unexpected- but the distressing votes were from Senators Clinton, Kerry and Obama, who all voted for the agreement. 

The US-Peruvian Free Trade Agreement was ratified by Peru's Congress on June 28th. It may come before the US Congress in July. Read our collection of resources relating to the Peru FTA.